Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-12-01
NILS ADDRESS.
speech - the President Of the MsmiaeAs
AZ the Helena C~l~brassew.


AZ the Helena C~l~brassom.
The President of the day introduced
James j. Hill, President of the Mani.
toba, who spoke subst antially as fol
lows:
MIR. Hill said he could not express
the pleasure he felt in being present
and meeting go many of the people of
Helena and other parts of Montana
after the closing up of "a long summer =
work. 1t was some three years since
he had first seen the city and the beau
tifui mountain surroundings of the
capital OF the Territory. Colonel
Broadwater, at that time. was par
ticularly anxious that he (IIill) should
visit Montana and see for himself what
held there was for railroad de ,elop-
ment, and when here he was given no
peace until he had rushed over the
mountain ranges four times in as
many days. Broadwater insisted that
under every stone was a mine, and he
told his story SO well that he tHiID
was more than hall inclined to believe
him right. daughter.
Later on, said Mr.. Hill, when it was
decided to build the Montana Cent raj,
"BrOad" was asked what he wanted,
what he would do, how he would get
his plant out here? 81 don't want
| anything but the rails" was his an
swer. We have got men aud te,n's
and material and every hing required
to build "a railroad excepting the rails.
I want to pet them ont here Il en-,
Work started. and when We wara L.re
a wear ago we found il well advanced
AZ that time II WAS de.;J..,l to axt.nj
the Manitob, aud If ~. ,.o,,lI No, ,,.,,
the rails here any other wav to hr;n,,
them ont on on, own linz ,nnl,ns !
We have had n GOOD deal ~ f,,n ,,i,",,t
the rail louestion one t;n,a,ni anotI...
but. seriously. I think that nil o....'
sion to alluie To II hereafter viii ho
settled. II WON'T tro,,I,l,. ,,s ,s ,,,,,cI,
i'm the futu,e. While th.. Non;t,,,,,
counts more miles in tha ont torur;v,,
I think it is only t,ir tn saw that tho
active end of II hc,nn out bsr... th,
life was nut in it from this end Nv.
never would have started wn usvar
could have started. ii we had not fol,
that this end was takeu c,,re nj or
rather that this end wanted IN ha
taken care of. and we had tn comao,,t
here to do it. 1t would hardly have
been fair to have left "Rroni'' ont
here alone. with n grade the hovs haJ
to drive over and call i, /, rn;IrooJ
II.auQhter,l Your chairman has h,,e,
far too cOmplimentary of the .ntar.
DFise WIIich I nave f6e t0n0r i0 i;rect.
at lea 1T the yenernl movau,.n, r. ~
A.
bratipc the winding M of the fastest
piece of railroad work that has b,..n
or NAV hereafter he done ON tho CON.
tinent: not that there may not i've
men to build such lines. but I saw In
you that l do not believe there is
another place where Won could hnild
as long u line OF road so rapidly. Aud
in coming over it now for the third
time, If ever we needed confidence in
the enterprise, We feel hat We have It.
The thing grows on us in such IL way.
the country, the climate, everything.
that we know Montana is not to be
put down hereafter alone as "a mining
or as n grazing country. NV friend
and fellOw-directOr, Mr.. Shepherd, has
the reput alton of doing all his work;
but ] want to say to yOu privately
that he has a party named Sims who
does the work, and Shepherd does the
tall standing around. II.aughter.
tie Is dangerous man. not withstand
ing; he has a mill manner, but he has
a long pencil. Laughter Well, I
want to say that Shepherd has been
engaged for n good part OF ten DAYS
trying to make ~ survey of u Montana
turnip. Laughter. lie has eleva-
tiOns OF it and prOliles and diagrams.
and don't know what he will have
next. He suggests that he will have a
cross-sectiOn. Ii he does he will have
to make it with n cross-cut saw and
he will have to find one longenoush to
do it. Renewed laughter.
Your chairman. ~ h,va s,,;d b,s
alluded tn the entorn,so in f,,
too comnliuentorv terms Nou,,n,,
started by the uioneers seekino th,
yellow metal in your valleys, and your
mountains. has maintained a growth
that to me is wonderful. The perse-
verance. the confidence. that those
pioneers exhibited in coming here over
the plains, making their pilgrimageS OF
three and four weeks of stage riding
almost from tine Missouri river, is IA
marvel. think there is nothing like
it i'm the history of the country. And
to-day we should not forget those pio-
neers whose patience and long suffer